Process notes on the chapter so far:
Lt. Miller was built in Poser 7 using the DAZ Victoria 3 figure model, based on the character drawings from the original 2003 Spiders comic. Most of her clothing/gear was created in Maya 2009 and imported as OBJ files into Poser.
The landscape & environment are created in Maya 2009. The mountain trail is a soft-preview polygon with nested displacement maps to create the rock texture. (I’ll post a tutorial on how I created this in a future update.)
The motorcycle is a stock model purchased from TurboSquid (http://www.turbosquid.com) and heavily re-textured in Maya.
The Spider-Bot models were built in Maya. At some point in the future I’ll rig them up with workable skeletons and make them available as free downloads for Poser.
Music I listened to while working on this chapter:
- Tangerine Dream’s soundtrack to the movie Sorcerer (an excellent 1977 American remake of The Wages of Fear — check it out!)
- Michael Nyman: Six Celan Songs, The Ballad of Kastriot Rexhepi
- Optiv: “Brainworm,” from the album Endangered Species
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Also, in case an example helps, Nina Paley has recently joined Flattr and her
Sita Sings the Blues has 50 Fllattrs so far. The community is still very young, but there’s a chance this thing could take off.